Scholar in Residence to Speak at GMC
Fred Kirschenmann, an internationally-known advocate for land ethics and sustainable agriculture, is the first scholar in residence for Green Mountain College's new Master's of Sustainable Food Systems program. He will give an address in the Gorge at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 13. The event is free and open to the public.
Chronicle Story Features GMC Profs
Dean of Faculty Tom Mauhs-Pugh and prof. Philip Ackerman-Leist (environmental studies) are featured in a lead story in this week's edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The story by senior reporter Scott Carlson describes colleges where practical skills are combined with theoretical knowledge. Read the article here.
GMC Professor Mark Dailey Receives Grant
Professor Mark Dailey (anthropology) recently received a grant of $27,000 from the ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program to conduct ethnographic research in China this summer with the help of five GMC students, Jurassica McClusky, Jena Stevens, Charlotte Wright, Simon Winchell-Manning, and Alison Putnam.
VIDEO POSTCARD Watch a short video produced by Zak Stark ’15 highlighting the 2011 Wilderness Challenge, GMC’s freshman orientation program.
STUDENT SNAPSHOT
Highlighting Social Sustainability Pragatee Dhakal is unlike many prototypical college students of today, with heads buried deep in their books while frequently losing sight of the world’s major conflicts. Growing up in Katmandu, Nepal, Pragatee’s priorities developed differently than most folks in the United States.
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